§ Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee, read.
THE LORD CHANCELLORsaid, that though he proposed to move that the House go into Committee on the Bill, according to Notice, he proposed that it should only be committed pro formâ, and with the view of inserting, on the Report, Amendments which might be printed before the Bill came on to be regularly discussed in Committee. Under these circumstances, he hoped the noble Lord (Lord Denman) who had given Notice of a Motion to defer the Committee on the Bill for six months would not think it necessary to move that Amendment to the Motion which he was now about to make. He had intended, with the permission of their Lordships, that the Committee on the Bill should be taken next Monday; but as the noble Duke (the Duke of Somerset) had post- 7 poned his Notice on the subject of the works at Alderney to that evening, he would name to-morrow week for discussing this Bill in Committee.
§ Moved, "That the House be now put into a Committee on the said Bill."—(The Lord Chancellor.)
LORD DENMAN,yielding to the request of the noble and learned Lord on the Woolsack, would not move his Amendment.
§ Motion agreed to; House in Committee accordingly; Bill reported, without Amendment; Amendments made; Bill re-committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday the 1st of April next; and to be printed as amended. (No. 45.)
§ House adjourned at a quarter before Six o'clock, till To-morrow, Twelve o'clock.